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N' Sync on CHR radio

I don't think it would be a bad thing if a CHR station played an old hit maybe once or twice an hour..A few days ago my local CHR (KHKS) played OMG by Usher and then the Kiss FM jingle, followed by Santeria by Sublime. I was kinda shocked but it was a nice surprise to hear :)
 
KIIS-FM occasionally plays a flashback song, I've heard them play "Don't Speak" by No Doubt once. They mainly do this during overnights.
 
the golden boy said:
I was in Birmingham last weekend and 103.7 the Q played "Bye Bye Bye". They were playing a lot of flashback songs, so that would explain it.
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They always do a "Deja-Q Weekend" of music over Memorial Day and Independence Day weekends.
 
When those 90s boy bands were popular you didn't hear CHR play New Kids On The Block. When New Kids were hot you didn't hear the Bay City Rollers.

I would personally hate to hear N'Sync or BSB on CHR in 2010 (not that I wanted to hear them in 1998). It would make the station sound old and out of touch. There is a lot of gold I love, but CHR is not the format I want to hear it on.
 
KZZP plays old hits on the weekends! They are doing their summer party weekends once again this year after a few years of not doing it, and now you can hear hits from Digital Underground, Tupac, Toya, Notorious BIG, Ginuwine, Outkast, Snoop Dogg & Dr Dre, and more all along with today's Travie McCoy, Paramore, Pitbull, Trey Songz, Train, Drake, Mike Posner, Usher and Shontelle..etc.
 
Just the Girl by The Click 5, Stay by Eternal (the one chick was HOT), LFO-Summer Girls (perfect seasonal song to this day, btw), We Fit Together-O-Town (didn't chart but great tune) & Give Me Just One Night by 98 Degrees.
 
We Fit Together-O-Town (didn't chart but great tun
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Sure it did. #25 in the fall of 2001.
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O-Town's "Liquid Dreams" hit #10 in 2000 & the ballad "All or Nothing" hit #3 in the summer of 2001.
No, it didn't. It was well known from the Dr. Doo-little movie but never charted. Check your Joel Whitburn Top 40 bible if you still don't agree.
Or...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Town_(album)
 
a couple other good ones that deserve a time slot every few months...
When the Lights Go Out-Five
Faded Soul Decision
Back Here-BB Mak
She's Got Skillz-All 4 One
lots by Boys II Men
Sex You Up/All For Love/Slow Motion-Color Me Badd
...then there's Take That-Back For Good :p
 
nightfly61 said:
O-Town's "Liquid Dreams" hit #10 in 2000 & the ballad "All or Nothing" hit #3 in the summer of 2001.
No, it didn't. It was well known from the Dr. Doo-little movie but never charted. Check your Joel Whitburn Top 40 bible if you still don't agree.
Or...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Town_(album)
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You ever heard of this chart called "Top 40 Mainstream?" Don't challenge me on charts.
 
Don't challenge me on charts
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The song DID NOT crack the Billboard top 40, therefore it was technically NOT a hit, Mr. Chart guy. If you're going by what one of your trivia books says, you've failed. Maybe invest in the Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. Billboard has a "Mainstream Top 40" chart, but that's not the official Top 40 Chart. If you want to go there, the song was also on the "Bubbling Under" chart since it failed to even crack the Hot 100. I also notice you were a seasoned pro of 15 when that particular song didn't chart.
 
Are you living in the 1960's? This is the CHR forum. The "R" stands for "radio."

The Hot 100 is a combination of many radio formats, and has absolutely no bearing on the programming of any radio station. The measure of a Top 40 song (especially one that was only worked to that format, like a boy band record) is its position on the Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart.

Oh, and "I Melt With You" and "What I Like About You" didn't make the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 either. And "Hypnotize" was not a hit at Top 40 Mainstream. Charts really don't matter from a historical perspective anyway.
 
nightfly61 said:
Don't challenge me on charts
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The song DID NOT crack the Billboard top 40, therefore it was technically NOT a hit, Mr. Chart guy. If you're going by what one of your trivia books says, you've failed. Maybe invest in the Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. Billboard has a "Mainstream Top 40" chart, but that's not the official Top 40 Chart. If you want to go there, the song was also on the "Bubbling Under" chart since it failed to even crack the Hot 100. I also notice you were a seasoned pro of 15 when that particular song didn't chart.
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Nightfly, you are awfully harsh on people, don't you think? Will makes a valid point, in that the Billboard and Hot 100 charts don't mean anything anymore. As a programmer of a (very) well-rated CHR, I can tell you that record labels - and fan clubs - do nothing but waste their time when they spew out statistics from those two sources to me. Show me something from the Mediabase CHR/Pop, CHR/Rhythmic, and Urban charts and I'll discuss your song with you... that's what I always tell them. In the case of the O-Town song in question, it WAS a hit on the Mediabse CHR/Pop chart, as Will points out. Whether or not it was DESERVING of that status is entirely a different argument.
 
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